Rembetika and laika: studies in popular Greek music in the twentieth century and memories of an au pair in Kifissia, Athens.
THE NEWS AGENTS ..... Jude Montague's creative news-arts show Saturday 2.30pm-3.30pm Resonance 104.4FM ...... EXPERIMENT AND JOURNEY 'On a rainy Saturday in cold old February it was a delight to be chatting about music and arty things and having a bit of a sing with Jude Montague' JUDY DYBLE She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times.' BILL NEELY 'Jude Montague has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before.' JON SNOW
Friday 12 April 2024
Friday 5 April 2024
Sat 5 April - Tango Studies
As part of an occasional series digging into aspects of tango and concentrating on early Argentine tango canciĆ³n . Songs made famous by Carlos Gardel and his 1930s contemporaries plus music from the early tango musical 'Soul of the Accordion' and from the biopic of Rudy Valentino.
Friday 29 March 2024
Sat 30 Mar - Bring Your Own Hammer
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Sat 23 Mar - Anatolian Rock
Anatolian rock with tracks from 1960s and 1970s explosion. The Istanbul domestic rock music scene remained popular until the 1970s when political changes led many of its leading figures to leave Turkey and the modern music to become more Arabesque and melancholic. There has been a revival in recent years of Anatolian rock.
Friday 15 March 2024
Sat 16 March - alternative St Patrick's day music
Alternative St Patrick's Day music with tracks from Cathal Coughlan, Bring Your Own Hammer, Sinead O'Connor, Michael O'Shea, Langam, and responding to requests received from members of the UK-Irish artist community.
Friday 8 March 2024
Sat 9 March - Rachael Ball, Graphic Novelist on narrative in the graphic novel
Rachael Ball, graphic novelist and educator in discussion about narrative, invention and writing with pictures. Her first graphic novel 'The Inflatable Woman' (Bloomsbury) was one the Guardian's Best Graphic Novels of 2015 and was a breakthrough work in changing landscape and possibilities for the British graphic novel. She teaches workshops on creating graphic novels at the House of Illustration and the City Lit and more recently Arvon Online as well as mentoring at the LDComics Residencies and being a London co-ordinator for LDComics.
Friday 23 February 2024
Sat 24 Feb - Woodcuts, Victorian Illustration and Time
On embarking on a new graphic novel that begins in Victorian times, looking at some woodcuts and Victorian illustration including John Tenniel's 'Alice in Wonderland' studies and the Dalziel archive of wood engraving. With a Victorian inspired soundtrack including songs from Tim Whelan, Sinead O'Connor and Vesta Victoria.